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Ali Bramwell

Sam Tupou, Alpine view, 2005, silkscreen print onto Perspex/PVC foam. In Spaced at MARS, Melbourne Art Rooms, 418 Bay Street, Port Melbourne, from 7 June to 2 July. Call 03 9681 8425 or visit www.marsgallery.com.au.

Physics Room residency

Physics Room is advertising a new residency opportunity for a New Zealand curator or a visual artist in 2007 to help build and develop a sustainable visual arts culture in New Zealand, the emphasis is on high quality and innovative new work. The residency will support either a curator or visual artist to develop new work, build networks, or work on producing a specific project. The residency is well-supported and includes a stipend, accommodation and an exhibition. There are two main criteria: the resident must be both a New Zealand resident and persuing an innovative arts practice in a professional capacity. When making their selection, Physics Room will also be considering how the proposed project might benefit and invigorate the Christchurch arts scene. Visit www.physicsroom.org.nz.

Big Wall full of squiggles

Judy Darragh is making good use of all 161 metres of Dunedin Public Art Gallery's Big Wall. She has colonised the wall with a 'frozen flood' of animated three dimensional squiggles, literally squirts of expanded foam stick out from the wall like many tadpole tails, covered with bursts of fluorescent colour delivered by aerosol. Coincidentally, there is an earlier work by Darragh from the same series on show at Christchurch Art Gallery in the contemporary gallery (which has changing shows generally drawn from the Gallery's permanent collection). That work, Cats and dogs 2003, made from piano wire, fur, lycra and plastic found objects, was originally part of an exhibition entitled Truth and beauty II in which Judy Darragh explored the tension between high and low art – kitsch versus good taste. Darragh's Big Wall Project at Dunedin Public Art Gallery will be on show until 13 August.